Documents and publications

In this report scientists project that global land temperatures will be 1.2°C/2.1° F above normal in the coming months due in large part to the current “Super El Niño” that began in June and is expected to last through Northern Hemisphere spring.

This paper critically examines the potential for leveraging the U.S. emergency management (EM) enterprise to enhance national resilience to future acute climate risks.

This study examines policy and provision for working donkeys in Kenya and Ethiopia, countries severely affected by drought and heavily reliant on donkeys for community resilience.

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the current alerting systems for hot and cold weather used in England to notify the health and social care sector of upcoming extreme weather events.

This paper suggests that reoccupation of the Nepal mountains can be explained at least in part by the governing instruments under which the asset was licensed, contracted and financed.

This Technical Handbook guides North Macedonia’s Resilient Recovery Framework, consolidating EU-aligned evidence and tools, urging legal, institutional, and data reforms, and detailing stepwise, people-centered approaches for risk-informed recovery.

This editorial explores how AI, Earth Observation data and cloud platforms support disaster risk reduction, highlighting 25 studies on hazards, risk assessment, early warning, response and recovery, and future directions for responsible AI.

This review examines climate change in Türkiye, its effects on health and cancer care, and the role of oncology nurses in adaptation, disaster preparedness, environmental health awareness, and supporting patients during climate-related crises.

This paper analyses 18 global case studies of healthcare systems facing extreme weather events and identifies four resilience pathways, showing that resilience depends on cross-scale adaptive capacity, coordination, workforce support and recovery systems.

This report assesses climate hazards in Uganda’s Kikuube District, finding increasing drought stress, localized flood risk and rising temperatures. It recommends early warning systems, climate-smart agriculture, water management and resilience planning.

This paper proposes a Bridge Resilience System that integrates condition assessment, hazard exposure, vulnerability, risk, lifecycle costs and MCDM. A Kolhapur pilot shows that bridge resilience planning should extend beyond condition-based management.

This study examines the anticipatory action (AA) activations implemented before the 2025 Pakistan Floods and documents implementation experiences, operational learning, and lessons from these activations.

This paper examines how temporary community facilities can instead operate as longer-term recovery assets by analyzing the Kumamoto Home-for-All Reutilization Project in Japan.

This scoping review of 176 studies from 41 countries found that heatwave-associated deaths are rarely coded as direct heat-related, while surveillance systems remain fragmented, highlighting the need for standardized and integrated monitoring.

This report provides a practical framework to help leaders assess where extreme heat risks are greatest across value chains, which interventions will deliver value and how to embed resilience into daily operations. I

This policy brief describes economic risks and adaptation opportunities for the UK in relation to agriculture, flood and coastal management, health and labour productivity.

This study examines how prior hazard experiences shape community preparedness for future climate-related risks by linking census block group-level wind and rainfall exposures from eleven storms affecting Louisiana during 2017–2021.

This study presents the first national-scale characterisation of land subsidence hazard and exposure of population groups and infrastructure systems across 20 United States coastal states, explicitly accounting for spatial dependence.

The study examines how secondary cities and development cooperation can better respond to these challenges, It looks past visible outcomes such as informal settlements and flooding to the underlying practices, capacities and paradigms that produce them.

<p>How is your organization preparing its organizational capacities for disaster risk communication in the age of extremes? A new study of the COPE project, led by the Cemaden (Brazilian Early Warning and Monitoring Center) and funded by the São Paulo</p>

This study examines the impact of GLOFs and snow avalanches on livelihoods and infrastructure in Chitral District, as well as community perceptions of these hazards.

This paper presents a high-resolution modelling approach for coastal exposure assessment, based on a 43-year wave hindcast dataset, applied to a densely urbanised stretch of coast along the eastern Ligurian Riviera (northwestern Italy).

This report presents a scalable, data-driven methodology to help North Macedonia transition from reactive crisis management to proactive risk reduction and investment planning.

This playbook explores how coalitions of local government, businesses, investors, insurers and communities can manage physical risk to improve their resilience and insurability in the face of increasing extreme weather events.

This white paper analyzes the growing compound risks of heat and water stress using climate models, industry data, and case studies, urging forward-looking risk integration and investment in water efficiency amid rising global wet-bulb temperatures.

This article analyzes the exposure of Brazil’s Social Assistance Reference Centers (CRAS), the main entry points for the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS), to flood and landslide risks

This NDMA guide integrates psychosocial support into disaster management in Pakistan, emphasizing that early, inclusive PSS is key for mental health, resilience, and recovery—advocating MHPSS as central to sustainable development, not a stand-alone add-on

The World Risk Report 2026 asks: why does the same storm turn into a disaster in one country while its consequences remain limited elsewhere?

This paper reviews 130 studies on climate risks and real-estate valuation, finding evidence concentrated on flood-related physical risks, US housing markets and single-family housing, while highlighting research gaps on transition and compound risks.

This paper uses a generative machine-learning model to show strong evidence that global emissions since the 2015 Paris Agreement intensified Europe's recent heat extremes, including the high-impact June 2025 heatwave.

This paper estimates that epidemics were associated with an average annual loss of 17,549 health workers globally from 1990 to 2019, with the greatest burden in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and lower-income countries.

This factsheet, produced by IFRC in July 2026, summarizes expected El Niño impacts across Asia Pacific through 2027 and the preparedness and response activity already underway across the region.

This assessment examines climate hazards in Kamwenge District, highlighting increasing drought, heat and localized flood risks and their implications for refugee and host communities.

This report analyzes climate hazards and future projections in Terego District, Uganda. It highlights rising heat stress, unpredictable rainfall, seasonal drought, and localized flooding affecting rural host communities and refugee settlements.

This report provides a comprehensive spatial analysis of historical climate trends and future projections for Obongi District, Uganda. It evaluates key climate hazards—specifically seasonal droughts and flood susceptibility.

This summary presents downscaled climate projections for Madi Okollo District under the SSP2-4.5 moderate emissions scenario, evaluating shift patterns between the historical baseline (1970–2000) and mid-century (2041–2060).

This assessment examines climate hazards in Isingiro District, highlighting increasing heat, seasonal drought and localized flooding and their impacts on refugee and host communities.

The report assesses climate hazards in Uganda's Lamwo District, analyzing historical trends and future projections for seasonal drought and localized flooding.

This assessment examines climate hazards in Kyegegwa District, focusing on drought, flooding, rainfall variability and rising temperatures, and their impacts on refugee and host communities.

This report evaluates the climate hazard vulnerability of Koboko District, Uganda, a region hosting over 31,000 formal and self-settled refugees near the borders of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This report evaluates climate risks in Kiryandongo District, Uganda, where rising temperatures and erratic rainfall threaten over 165,000 refugees and local host communities.

This report evaluates climate hazards in Uganda's Kikuube District, where rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall fuel severe seasonal droughts and localized flooding.

This assessment maps drought, heat, and flood risks in Uganda's Yumbe District to help guide climate adaptation and disaster planning for local communities and Bidibidi Refugee Settlement residents.

This climate hazard assessment highlights how rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and recurring seasonal droughts and floods threaten livelihoods and food security for refugee and host communities in Uganda's Adjumani District.

This report examines communication and engagement for compound natural hazards in Australia, highlighting the need for two-way, locally grounded approaches to strengthen preparedness and resilience.

The Planetary Health Check is a yearly report on the state of our planet.

This study presents an AI-physics hybrid framework that couples five AI weather prediction models with Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)-Urban Canopy Model (UCM) for high-resolution city-scale extreme wind prediction.

This bulletin examines how communities in Somalia are coping with a “double shock” drought, highlighting failing coping strategies, declining trust in official warnings, reduced aid, and the importance of supporting community-led responses.

This brief highlights Save the Children Nigeria’s Community-Led Early Warning Systems (EWS) and Anticipatory Action approach, which helps communities prepare for and respond to predictable hazards before they escalate into crises.

The Emergency Management Act 2026 establishes New Zealand’s framework for hazard management, preparedness, emergency response, recovery, governance, planning, essential infrastructure, compliance, and compensation arrangements.